Category Archives: Movie Newspapers

Stephen King fans will recognize Castle Rock as home to many of his stories, including “Cujo,” “Needful Things,” “Stand By Me,” and “Gwendy’s Button Box.” It’s also mentioned in a variety of other King stories over the years.

Watching “Godless” on Netflix … The miniseries is set in the 1880s in the fictional small mining town of La Belle, New Mexico, where nearly all of the town’s men have died in a mining accident. Of course the surviving women have to deal with lots and lots of men-being-jerks types of issues. I highly recommend it. It stars non other than Lady Mary herself, Downton Abby‘s Michelle Dockery along with some other big names.

Anyway, fake for TV/Movies/Internet newspaper The Daily Review showed its fictional self for a few seconds. It was based in the real town of Taos, New Mexico.

My one first complaint is deckle edge. To me that screams offset printing. I would think that back in the day, even the fictional day of 18-Whatever, TheReview would have been letterpress. Well, at least there are no wrong-century photographs.

The big complaint I have it the font used for the flag.

It’s way to modern — an interpretation of what we think an old Wild Western font would have been. I doubt that this font even existed in the 1800s.

Here’s another Hollywood newspaper, the New York Bulletin. Apparently, this is a thing in the Marvel Comics sphere since 1984.

I love this, because if you go to the Marvel wiki, there’s even a “correction” on the drop hed:

The cover for the “Battle of NY” incorrectly states that hundreds were killed when the actual death toll, according to statistics compiled by the United Nations, was seventy-four.

Aside from that, I think that it’s great that even in the fictional world folks are framing important front pages of newspapers. I suspect that in the real world, there are not too many people printing out webpages and framing them.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s pressroom and various other parts of it’s production building will be double duty for The New York Times Pressroom and the Department of Justice for an upcoming movie, “Manhunt: The Unabomber.”

The real AJC reports that this is a Discovery channel production, so if you have that tier on the small screen, keep your eyes peeled.

In the same, “PeachBuzz” article, they report a fake AJC appears in “Baby Driver,” courtesy of the real AJC’s marketing department.